A good night for Britain at a diverse Golden Globes

The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has confounded some critics by winning what’s widely regarded as the top award at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.

Rami Malek won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for playing Freddie Mercury in the Best Drama, Bohemian Rhapsody.

As well as taking the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, it also took the Best Actor in a drama prize for Rami Malek, playing Freddie Mercury.

Peter Farrelly’s Toronto Film Festival winner Green Book took the most awards – Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and Best Screenplay.

Another multiple award winner was the Mexican drama Roma, which won both Best Foreign Language film and – unusually for this category – the overall Best Director prize for Alfonso Cuarón.

Olivia Colman (right) has boosted her Oscar hopes with her Golden Globes win for The Favourite

But it’s the acting awards that draw most attention – and there was plenty of British interest, with Olivia Colman boosting her Oscar hopes with a win in the Best Actress category for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, even though her film was nominated in the less favourable Musical or Comedy category. Christian Bale secured the corresponding Actor award for Vice, in which he plays the former US Vice President Dick Cheney, someone he referred to as Satan in his acceptance speech.

In the other film acting categories, Glenn Close won Best Actress in a drama for The Wife and Regina King was named the Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was that the only award for the hotly tipped A Star is Born came in the Best Original Song category, for Shallow, co-written by the film’s star Lady Gaga and British DJ, writer and music producer Mark Ronson.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose ninety-or-so members vote on the Globes, also uses the ceremony to honour achievement in TV and there was plenty of British success there too, with BBC shows Bodyguard, A Very British Scandal and Killing Eve among the winners. Bodyguard’s Richard Madden was named Best Actor in a TV drama series, Ben Whishaw won the Globe for Best Supporting Actor on TV and the Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh picking up an award herself, for Killing Eve. The BBC’s Director-General Lord Hall said it had been a “special night” for British creativity.

What influence the Globes will have on Hollywood more widely is never quite clear. Traditionally seen as a signpost to Oscar success, it’s more likely that this list of film winners will be born in mind when the 6000 or so Academy members select their nominees, but when it comes to selecting the winners, other factors are likely to come into play.

But with the HFPA voters necessarily coming from across the world, their awards could be expected to end up with a more diverse range of winners, but whatever happens later in the Awards Season, Hollywood will be pleased to have seen those walking off stage with a Golden Globe including the Egyptian-American Rami Malek, black actors Mahershala Ali and Regina King, the Mexican Alfonso Cuarón, the Canadian-Korean Sandra Oh and the gay actor Ben Whishaw.

And here is the full list of winners:

Film categories

Best motion picture – drama

Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody

Black Panther

Black Klansman

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Star is Born

Best motion picture – comedy or musical

Winner: Green Book

Crazy Rich Asians

The Favourite

Mary Poppins Returns

Vice

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – drama

Winner: Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody

Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born

Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate

Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased

John David Washington – Black Klansman

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – drama

Winner: Glenn Close – The Wife

Lady Gaga – A Star is Born

Nicole Kidman – Destroyer

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Rosamund Pike – A Private War

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – comedy or musical

Winner: Christian Bale – Vice

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

Robert Redford – The Old Man and the Gun

John C Reilly – Stan and Ollie

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – comedy or musical

Winner: Olivia Colman – The Favourite

Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns

Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade

Charlize Theron – Tully

Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture

Winner: Mahershala Ali – Green Book

Timothee Chalamet – Beautiful Boy

Adam Driver – Black Klansman

Richard E Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Rockwell – Vice

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture

Winner: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

Amy Adams – Vice

Claire Foy – First Man

Emma Stone – The Favourite

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Best director – motion picture

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron – Roma

Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born

Peter Farrelly – Green Book

Spike Lee – Black Klansman

Adam McKay – Vice

Best screenplay – motion picture

Winner: Green Book

The Favourite

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Vice

Best animated film

Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Best foreign language film

Winner: Roma

Capernaum

Girl

Never Look Away

Shoplifters

Best original score

Winner: First Man – Justin Hurwitz

Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson

Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

A Quiet Place – Marco Beltrami

Best original song – motion picture

Winner: Shallow – A Star is Born (Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson)

All the Stars – Black Panther (Kendrick Lamar)

Girl in the Movies – Dumplin’ (Dolly Parton, Linda Perry)

Requiem for a Private War – A Private War (Annie Lennox)

Revelation – Boy Erased (Troye Sivan)

Television categories

Best television series – drama

Winner: The Americans

Bodyguard

Homecoming

Killing Eve

Pose

Best television series – comedy

Winner: The Kominsky Method

Barry

The Good Place

Kidding

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel

Best actor in a television series – drama

Winner: Richard Madden – Bodyguard

Jason Bateman – Ozark

Stephan James – Homecoming

Billy Porter – Pose

Matthew Rhys – The Americans

Best actress in a television series – drama

Winner: Sandra Oh – Killing Eve

Caitriona Balfe – Outlander

Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale

Julia Roberts – Homecoming

Keri Russell – The Americans

Best actor in a television series – musical or comedy

Winner: Michael Douglas -The Kominsky Method

Sacha Baron Cohen – Who is America?

Jim Carrey – Kidding

Donald Glover – Atlanta

Bill Hader – Barry

Best actress in a television series – musical or comedy:

Winner: Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel

Kristen Bell – The Good Place

Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown

Alison Brie – Glow

Debra Messing – Will and Grace

Best limited series or motion picture made for television:

Winner: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

The Alienist

Escape at Dannemora

Sharp Objects

A Very English Scandal

Best actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television:

Winner: Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Antonio Banderas – Genius: Picasso

Daniel Brühl – The Alienist

Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose

Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal

Best actress in a limited series or motion picture made for television:

Winner: Patricia Arquette – Escape at Dannemora

Amy Adams – Sharp Objects

Connie Britton – Dirty John

Laura Dern – The Tale

Regina King – Seven Seconds

Best supporting actor in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:

Winner: Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal

Alan Arkin – The Kominsky Method

Kieran Culkin – Succession

Edgar Ramirez – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Henry Winkler – Barry

Best supporting actress in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:

Winner: Patricia Clarkson – Sharp Objects

Alex Bornstein – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel

Penelope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story